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AMERICAblog: California to post 'global warming score' on new cars

  • red_dwarf · 1 year ago
    TWEAK!

    Arming consumers with information. What a novel idea.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    This isn't good news, this is great news! Maybe NC will catch up in another 50 years...
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Those Californians come up with the cutest things. Then they move to Oregon. What's that about?
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    I guess Paulson, Goldman Sachs, Morgan-Stanley and their Intercontinental Exchange are busy bees these days, eh wot? Speculation is their speciality.
  • Alex2 · 1 year ago
    I'd consider this bad news, actually. It just reinforces the popular belief that global warming can be addressed just by looking at what comes out of a car's tailpipe or goes into it's gas tank - and not everything that goes into producing, shipping, and supporting a car. If you take the entire production process into account, as well as the effects on our sprawling communities and all the roads and highways we have to build an d maintain for cars - well, no car is actually green. And pushing the myth that you can have a "Green" car just throws another obstacle in the way of those trying to address global climate change.

    If you really cared about the issue you would maintain an old car well, use it less, and bike, walk, or take the bus when possible.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    Well DART light rail ridership is up in Dallas, believe it or not. My husband and I own only one car now. I live a mile from my job and use a bike (I got rid of my electic scooter...too risky on rainy days). We are doing our best in our house. I am noticing more cyclists in the morning now in our area. But our problem is big haired bitches on cell phones driving Hummers and not watching the road.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    This is all well and good....where the fuck are the electric cars???? In the brilliant film "Who killed the electric car?" it was very clear that BIG OIL has done everything it can to prevent this idea. Chevron bought up the patent on the Nickle MHD battery that would enable a small compact to go 200 miles per charge. The average American could use an all electric for basic daily work commute. It would reduce consumption drastically, especially in city areas. It is a HUGE threat to the corporate profit system. This is why ANY bailout for Detroit must be stopped. They have been in colusion with Houston to prevent this vehicle.
  • TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago
    I got that film from Netflix and was horrified that such a do-able alternative to fossil fuel was summarily axed. And with nary a whimper from any politician.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    Back in the 1973 oil embargo, the magazine Popular Science had plans on how
    to convert a Chevette to run on lead acid batteries with a simple lawn mower
    engine to charge them. This is thirty five goddam years ago and it worked
    with then primitive technology. I had a bud in college who actually did it
    for then huge bucks of $350 and it worked very well, although the Briggs and
    Stratton engine was noisy as hell. He used it around New Haven for several
    years. The movie "Who Killed..." jumps ahead to the late nineties and shows
    that the tech advances since the seventies made this idea possible.

    This nation used to be able to put men on the moon, create information
    technology which has been the envy of the world, developed smartphones the
    size of a candy bar which I am writing on right now. And we cannot get past
    100 year old internal combustion engine technology to get around town?
    Hello?

    There is only ONE possible reason we don't have electric cars: the CEO of
    Exxon plays golf with the CEO of GM who plays golf with the CEO of Chevron
    who plays golf with the CEO of Ford....and their little white boys club all
    give money to Congress and the GOP to keep our little system in place. They
    had better get control of this new fangled "net thang" because the unwashed
    masses are begininng to figure out the scam.
  • boogieman · 1 year ago
    yah, and they tool around those golf courses in ELECTRIC golf carts....lmfao...
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    Exactly...in very tacky plaid pants, with their fat tits showing in those
    gawd awful golf shirts made of Rayon...and combovers...but yes it must be
    quiet on the links for them and so they use electric carts.
  • boogieman · 1 year ago
    BTW, you are one funny motherfucker....er, fatherfucker....whatever. I laughed my ass off reading your past blogs.....witty, funny, TRUTHFUL stuff, my friend. Also, just a fyi, not all of us straight gunloving southern men hate gays; some of us don't give a shit WHO you screw, some of us only care about how you treat your fellow man...er, woman....whoever! Nice to meetcha. Keep it coming, I always need a laugh.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    ROFL at the fatherfucker thing....I know that many southern men are gay
    friendly. Any real man secure in his masculinity, straight or gay, has no
    fears around ANY other man. I guess what really gets me is the hypocracy of
    bashing gay rights and then sneaking around sucking cock behind the wife's
    back...and apparently Washington is full of them...as is Dallas, Houston,
    Atlanta, etc etc
  • boogieman · 1 year ago
    And from what I've read in your blogs, the national Baptist convention, too....LOL...the good lord is gonna send them to hell where they will BURN for all eternity 'cause he's the GOOD LORD and his love knows no boundaries...LOL..how is it we're finally getting over the race thing as a nation but it's still acceptable to bash folks because of their sexual preferences? Oh yeah, I forgot, "cause the BIBLE says so". The same bible that says women should submit to their husbands, that slaves should be subservient to their masters....that INFALLIBLE work of God that assures us that insects have 4 legs, and that rabbits chew cud...making sheep look at striped rods while they boom-boom will get you striped offspring, T-rex and Neandertal walked the earth with buffalo and wolves...and while we're at it- there was Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel; we all descended from those 4....SOMEBODY was fucking his mother or sister....ROFL, that one gets me every time...
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    Okay you can use this with a fundy...unless they are very HIGHLY educated in
    theology...which is an oxymoron...there is no such thing as a highly
    educated fundy...

    In Leviticus, if you read the Torah Hebrew, the word "abomination" is
    transliterated "SCHICKSA"...now anyone from the New York area knows that a
    Schicksa is a Gentile girlfriend or wife of a Jewish boy. It's nowadays a
    fairly humorous moniker....means that the Jewish boy wants to WASPize his
    image and falls in love with a Schicksa and pisses off his Jewish mother. To
    an Orthodox Jew, the word is pretty strong and not very nice. Like eating
    shrimp or pork...which also translates as "schicksa" or schicksot plural. (I
    only a bit of Hebrew because I dated a Rabbi once.)

    Anyway on several occasions with Southern Baptist white trash Bible thumpers
    I have pointed out to them that if they are going to take the Scriptures
    LITERALLY, they really ought to learn Hebrew, since everything else is
    translated and NO translation can possibly be the perfect word of God
    anyway.

    Then I point out to them that their fat white trash wife is technically a
    Schicksa and thus an abomination. You'll use it.
  • boogieman · 1 year ago
    I've seen that in your blogs and it's duly been added to my fave responses...true, too. Problem with the fundamental christians is, they both adhere to Old Testament scripture AND assert that those scriptures are a moot point because Jesus died on the cross and released mankind fron the totalitarian, cruel, illogical laws we were expected to adhere to prior his "paying the price" on the cross...an example of this maddening contradiction are the OT verses which tell us that no Maobite, nor any offspring of any Maobite, shall ever enter into heaven. The book is quite clear on this and leaves nothing to interpretation: all Maobites and their offspring WILL GO TO HELL. Tell that to a Southern Baptist and they will look at you like you just told them you like men (snicker), because the book is ALSO very specific when concerning the way into heaven. Jesus died for our transgressions, and absolves those sins for us when we repent, and nothing can keep us from our heavenly reward, so long as we choose Jesus as our savior and repent our sins. Problem is, the verses use the VERY SPECIFIC words "shall ever", which any intelligent man such as yourself will interpret in a nanosecond as meaning "never in a million years", IE, God, being OMNIPOTENT and knowing what the future will bring when Jesus is killed on the cross, LIES TO MANKIND when he says to go ahead and kill the fucking evil Maobites 'cause they're marked men anyways...and the OT is FULL of that "NEVER EVER " shit...GOTO "bible absurdities" (google it) and see lots more fun christian times to be had by all hellbound thinking folks... your fried chicken eating, gun toting, chicken keeping,catfish catching,college-schoolin' straight friend, Jason...
  • boogieman · 1 year ago
    And to add to my last comment....if God is soooo damn perfect, if that book is the INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD, how come he could'nt overcome the lost- in -translation SHIT? Why are we the only two folks acknowledging this shit here? Yours, (actually Tara's), Jason from Tennessee